diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index 9cd65e9d3..d40507e02 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://python.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 3 programming language intended to enable clear programs"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses, readline, libffi, openssl, libutil, libbz2, libsqlite, gdbm, ncurses-ui-libs, libcrypt, liblzma"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEVPACKAGE_DEPENDS="libcrypt-dev"
 _MAJOR_VERSION=3.6
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.6
 TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
diff --git a/packages/python2/build.sh b/packages/python2/build.sh
index 6a690fdb3..d94b5b73d 100644
--- a/packages/python2/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python2/build.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 2 programming language intended to enable clear p
 # libbz2 for the bz2 module.
 # ncurses-ui-libs for the curses.panel module.
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ncurses, readline, libffi, openssl, libutil, libbz2, libsqlite, gdbm, ncurses-ui-libs, libcrypt"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEVPACKAGE_DEPENDS="libcrypt-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_HOSTBUILD=true
 
 _MAJOR_VERSION=2.7